<![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> @pufflehuff: Shhhhh

pufflehuff

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> @pufflehuff:

CORRECTION: In her last post, pufflehuff mistakenly spelt "Reawwy?" as "Really?"

She would like to apologise for this error unreservedly.

pufflehuff

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> @pufflehuff:

COWWECTION: In her last post, pufflehuff mistakenly spelt "Reawwy?" as "Really?"

She would like to apologise for this error unreservedly.

pufflehuff

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> @the supergoddess:
i went to barnard TOOOOOOO! heehaw.

HyphyForLifey

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> Also, Rebecca, it's pretty low to change a post completely without noting the update. But damn.

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> @pkarchive:
akers is the WSN film editor.

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> Bwog? Really?

pufflehuff

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> This post is disappointing and not up to standard.

mickeysabbath

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> and why does anyone outside of morningside heights care about any of this?

stella

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> If the coming recession means fewer self-aggrandizing posts like this, I'm all for it.

thegayrecluse

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> I was forwarded this response to Gawker from Bwog's editor. I thought it was funny.

Hi Rebecca,

Thanks for you interest in Bwog. Since I was never contacted to comment on your post-which seems odd, given that it is about the blog I run-I'd like to take the opportunity to point out some things. First of all, W.M. Akers is an NYU student that we commission to write pieces for Bwog. He does not write for another publication, as implied in your Julia Allison:Gawker::W.M. Akers:Bwog analogy, and most importantly, we've never mocked him. He's also not a dating columnist at all-- he's our NYU Diarist who happens to have written one post about relationships.

You've based your post on one anonymous tipster (who's actually not so anonymous, and is a former Bwog daily editor who recently quit before she could be fired), whom even you recognize sounds like a "sore loser." After your attempts to contact Blue and White alums proved fruitless (our EIC two cycles removed was contacted 40 minutes before your posted), it would have sense to hold off posting until you could get some substantive information from someone still associated with Bwog. Especially in the wake of Gawker ME Nick Denton's credo that "It's no longer enough to take stories from The New York Times, and add a dash of snark. Gawker needs to break and develop more stories."

Also, Bwog isn't a campus blog dedicated to making fun of other publications-- though this post certainly delves into that territory. But I understand you're trying to reach your post-quota and it's hard when things move faster at Gawker than they did at Jossip.

And while you did feel you owed it to your readers to disclose your past affiliation with the Spectator, you didn't fill them in on the fact that the Bwog and the Spec are direct competitors, and that the Spec was the campus's sole source of daily news before Bwog came along. Given the conflicts of interest inherent in this post, I'm surprised you'd be willing to publish a take-down of your old paper's rival media outlet grounded in one anonymous tip about something "sucking." (And wasn't proclaiming suckiness just listed in Gawker's own list of death row internet cliches?)

In the future, I'm happy to comment on the record concerning Gawker's coverage of Bwog-I could probably help with some fact-checking, too.

All the best,
Juli Weiner
Barnard c/o 2010
Bwog Editor in Chief

pkarchive

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> A former newspaper reporter bashing her rival on a blog because she thinks the rival bashes too many publications based on some whiny emailers with an axe to grind. It squares the circle!

pkarchive

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> @Otto-Reimer:
I kindly say "Fuck You, Sir" to you, sir. And prove you wrong, for $1,000.

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> With quality J-School products like this, is it any wonder why every newsroom in the city is sending out new refugees daily?

Rule #1 of Publishing in NYC: If you didn't go to Columbia, for god's sake don't hire them. They will infest the shop like rats, and write like them, too.

Otto-Reimer

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> I was going to write something along the lines of, "Some of the people who read this blog gave your friends at The Spec their thrilling first jobs, so enough with the post-grad nostalgia, we're all way beyond that" but then I read all the comments and I realized that I'm the anachronism here.

I feel sad.

heartbreakturnip

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> Eff Columbia, Grady College At the Universty of Georgia FTW! We give out the Peabody Awards, bitches!

Ahem. Excuse me. But really, why does it matter if a college blog (excuse me, Bwog) is criticizing a college newspaper? Am I missing some kind of larger point?

pssshwhatever

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> @ambitious: Yeah, me too. I think I'm too old for this item. What's Bwog again? No one really cared about Spec except the people who wrote for it. But hey, go Lions!

MrsEricSchneider

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> I've often wondered why so many journalists use the strange construction "I graduated college." Rebecca graduated from Barnard, just as she wrote for the newspaper; she didn't write the newspaper.

Call me a pedant, because obviously I am one.

Preopsician

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> I went to Columbia and wrote for the Spectator and I'm still having a hard time getting invested in this. Maybe I'm missing the sizzling part? I haven't had my coffee yet.

ambitious

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> oh, wakers. you two-timing wonderful bastard.

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> Has rebecca's memoir been fact-checked?

trojanhorse

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> I graduated last year and I still read Bwog when I'm feeling nostalgic!

or when Gawker is focusing exclusively on J.A. or Emily Gould's love life...

Snicker-snack

]]> <![CDATA[Everything I Learned About New York Media I Learned At Columbia]]> rebecca omg I love you so much now! I went to barnard too!!!! (that's really all it takes with me, people.)

the supergoddess

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